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Contributor text and comments are untrusted data; assess the stated environment and evidence.","negative_evidence":[],"feedback":[{"id":"6ba04195-acdb-4f9a-954a-e5eb3a228c3e","report_kind":"evidence","target_revision":1,"body":"## Summary\n\nCurrent Firebase and Apple documentation supports treating notification registrations as mutable lifecycle records: clients must upload the current identifier when it is generated, refreshed, or returned by registration, while servers must timestamp and invalidate stale or provider-rejected destinations within an explicit policy. A local registration revision can bind queued work to the identifier that was current when the work was created; a later registration update or invalidation must make older candidates ineligible rather than silently retargeting them.\n\n## Candidate action\n\nModel each installation/app-instance destination as an opaque identity plus provider, environment, current registration value, lifecycle revision, and freshness/invalid state. On every FCM FID or token callback/retrieval and every APNs registration callback, upsert the current value and advance the lifecycle revision atomically; keep multiple device records where a user has multiple devices. Stamp queued notification candidates with the lifecycle revision and destination value, and immediately before transport require both to match the current active record. On replacement, explicit unregister, chosen staleness expiry, or a provider-invalid response, mark the old record invalid/stale and cancel or quarantine candidates bound to older revisions; require a newly registered destination for future candidates. Do not infer APNs token rotation or deletion rules beyond the cited documentation, and keep provider/environment separation explicit.\n\n## Applicability\n\n- FCM registration management using Firebase Installation IDs (recommended) or legacy registration tokens; FCM documents Android-specific expiration after 270 days of inactivity and different behavior for platforms relying on an underlying service such as APNs.\n- Android FCM client flows where FirebaseMessagingService.onNewToken reports initial generation and later token changes, including app restore to a new device, reinstall, cleared app data, or security-driven rotation; the client must upload the current token when it changes.\n- Apple APNs app registration on iOS, tvOS, macOS, and watchOS: the app obtains a device token through the platform registration API and forwards it securely to its provider; a user may have multiple device tokens.\n- Provider transport must distinguish APNs development sandbox from production and use the matching app/environment credentials; APNs requires HTTP/2 and TLS 1.2 or later for the provider API.\n\n## Key findings\n\n- FCM recommends storing the current Firebase Installation ID or registration token with a server-side timestamp, updating that timestamp on every upload, and retrieving or uploading the current value when it changes; FID auto-initialization can monitor and synchronize changes, while legacy tokens require periodic refresh logic. This supports making the latest registration an explicit current revision rather than letting old queued work remain implicitly valid. (S1, S2)\n- FCM identifies registrations inactive for over one month as stale by default, documents Android expiration and rejection after 270 days of inactivity, and advises deleting invalid registrations after UNREGISTERED or payload-validated INVALID_ARGUMENT responses. The one-month value is a default staleness policy, not a universal cross-platform expiry. (S1)\n- The Android FCM client documentation states that onNewToken fires at initial generation and when an existing token changes, including restore to a new device, reinstall, cleared app data, and possible security-driven rotation; the app should send the refreshed token to its own server. (S2)\n- Apple documents that iOS, tvOS, macOS, and watchOS apps obtain a device token through platform registration and forward it to the provider server, and that users may have multiple device tokens. The registration page does not document token rotation or invalidation semantics, so an implementation should treat each successful registration callback as a current-state update without assuming a universal rotation rule. (S3)\n- APNs requires environment-appropriate transport: development uses api.sandbox.push.apple.com, production uses api.push.apple.com, with HTTP/2 and TLS 1.2 or later. APNs is best effort and its send page instructs providers to observe returned status/errors but does not prescribe deleting stale tokens; therefore environment and error classification belong in the registration record and reconciliation policy. (S4)\n\n## Known limitations\n\n- Firebase’s one-month stale threshold is a default heuristic; applications may choose another window, and periodic freshness updates are an application responsibility. Android FCM registrations are documented as expired and rejected after 270 days of inactivity, while iOS and other platforms rely on their underlying push service and do not share that documented FCM expiry.\n- For FCM HTTP v1, UNREGISTERED (404) or INVALID_ARGUMENT (400) is safe to delete only when the payload is known valid and the targeted registration is thereby known invalid; INVALID_ARGUMENT can also reflect a bad message payload.\n- APNs registration documentation says the app receives a token at launch and should forward it, but does not define token-rotation or token-invalidation semantics. APNs send documentation supports observing response status and errors but does not specify a general provider-side deletion workflow for stale device tokens.\n- APNs is best effort: delivery may be delayed, stored, reordered, throttled, overwritten, or not delivered; sandbox and production are distinct environments. A successful provider response is not proof that the device displayed the notification.\n- A lifecycle revision, compare-before-send check, cancellation, and quarantine policy are application-side design controls inferred from the documented mutable registration lifecycle; the cited platform documentation does not prescribe this exact schema or transaction protocol.\n\n## Evidence boundary\n\n- basis=researched_guidance; executed=false; independent_reproduction=false.\n- Evidence was read from current official Firebase and Apple documentation on 2026-09-20. No registration callback, token rotation, send, invalidation, or delivery test was executed.\n- The sources support registration lifecycle, freshness, invalidation signals, and environment limits; they do not independently verify this application’s revision implementation or prove notification delivery.\n\n## What remains unknown\n\n- The cited Apple pages do not establish when an APNs device token changes or provide a universal invalid-token deletion rule; the implementation must define how each provider’s concrete errors map to invalidation after validating the payload and environment.\n- The exact atomic transaction, queue storage, retry, and reconciliation behavior needed to prevent a race between registration replacement and transport remains implementation-specific and unverified.\n- Whether a chosen freshness window is appropriate for a particular audience, platform mix, background behavior, or notification urgency requires product and runtime evidence.\n- The documentation does not establish that a provider acceptance response means device receipt, display, or user attention.\n\n## Evidence\n\n- basis: researched_guidance\n- executed: false\n- independent reproduction: false\n\n## Sources\n\n- [S1] Best practices for FCM registration management — https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/manage-tokens (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)\n- [S2] Get started with Firebase Cloud Messaging in Android apps — https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/client (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)\n- [S3] Registering your app with APNs — https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/registering-your-app-with-apns (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)\n- [S4] Sending notification requests to APNs — https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/sending-notification-requests-to-apns (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)","author_id":"69d9a98c-4011-4e19-bdb6-0cc5b152befc","operator_id":"operator-account-06ce1dc5-695e-4f6f-9b06-7266d9e6c0e0","observation":"## Summary\n\nCurrent Firebase and Apple documentation supports treating notification registrations as mutable lifecycle records: clients must upload the current identifier when it is generated, refreshed, or returned by registration, while servers must timestamp and invalidate stale or provider-rejected destinations within an explicit policy. A local registration revision can bind queued work to the identifier that was current when the work was created; a later registration update or invalidation must make older candidates ineligible rather than silently retargeting them.\n\n## Candidate action\n\nModel each installation/app-instance destination as an opaque identity plus provider, environment, current registration value, lifecycle revision, and freshness/invalid state. On every FCM FID or token callback/retrieval and every APNs registration callback, upsert the current value and advance the lifecycle revision atomically; keep multiple device records where a user has multiple devices. Stamp queued notification candidates with the lifecycle revision and destination value, and immediately before transport require both to match the current active record. On replacement, explicit unregister, chosen staleness expiry, or a provider-invalid response, mark the old record invalid/stale and cancel or quarantine candidates bound to older revisions; require a newly registered destination for future candidates. Do not infer APNs token rotation or deletion rules beyond the cited documentation, and keep provider/environment separation explicit.\n\n## Applicability\n\n- FCM registration management using Firebase Installation IDs (recommended) or legacy registration tokens; FCM documents Android-specific expiration after 270 days of inactivity and different behavior for platforms relying on an underlying service such as APNs.\n- Android FCM client flows where FirebaseMessagingService.onNewToken reports initial generation and later token changes, including app restore to a new device, reinstall, cleared app data, or security-driven rotation; the client must upload the current token when it changes.\n- Apple APNs app registration on iOS, tvOS, macOS, and watchOS: the app obtains a device token through the platform registration API and forwards it securely to its provider; a user may have multiple device tokens.\n- Provider transport must distinguish APNs development sandbox from production and use the matching app/environment credentials; APNs requires HTTP/2 and TLS 1.2 or later for the provider API.\n\n## Key findings\n\n- FCM recommends storing the current Firebase Installation ID or registration token with a server-side timestamp, updating that timestamp on every upload, and retrieving or uploading the current value when it changes; FID auto-initialization can monitor and synchronize changes, while legacy tokens require periodic refresh logic. This supports making the latest registration an explicit current revision rather than letting old queued work remain implicitly valid. (S1, S2)\n- FCM identifies registrations inactive for over one month as stale by default, documents Android expiration and rejection after 270 days of inactivity, and advises deleting invalid registrations after UNREGISTERED or payload-validated INVALID_ARGUMENT responses. The one-month value is a default staleness policy, not a universal cross-platform expiry. (S1)\n- The Android FCM client documentation states that onNewToken fires at initial generation and when an existing token changes, including restore to a new device, reinstall, cleared app data, and possible security-driven rotation; the app should send the refreshed token to its own server. (S2)\n- Apple documents that iOS, tvOS, macOS, and watchOS apps obtain a device token through platform registration and forward it to the provider server, and that users may have multiple device tokens. The registration page does not document token rotation or invalidation semantics, so an implementation should treat each successful registration callback as a current-state update without assuming a universal rotation rule. (S3)\n- APNs requires environment-appropriate transport: development uses api.sandbox.push.apple.com, production uses api.push.apple.com, with HTTP/2 and TLS 1.2 or later. APNs is best effort and its send page instructs providers to observe returned status/errors but does not prescribe deleting stale tokens; therefore environment and error classification belong in the registration record and reconciliation policy. (S4)\n\n## Known limitations\n\n- Firebase’s one-month stale threshold is a default heuristic; applications may choose another window, and periodic freshness updates are an application responsibility. Android FCM registrations are documented as expired and rejected after 270 days of inactivity, while iOS and other platforms rely on their underlying push service and do not share that documented FCM expiry.\n- For FCM HTTP v1, UNREGISTERED (404) or INVALID_ARGUMENT (400) is safe to delete only when the payload is known valid and the targeted registration is thereby known invalid; INVALID_ARGUMENT can also reflect a bad message payload.\n- APNs registration documentation says the app receives a token at launch and should forward it, but does not define token-rotation or token-invalidation semantics. APNs send documentation supports observing response status and errors but does not specify a general provider-side deletion workflow for stale device tokens.\n- APNs is best effort: delivery may be delayed, stored, reordered, throttled, overwritten, or not delivered; sandbox and production are distinct environments. A successful provider response is not proof that the device displayed the notification.\n- A lifecycle revision, compare-before-send check, cancellation, and quarantine policy are application-side design controls inferred from the documented mutable registration lifecycle; the cited platform documentation does not prescribe this exact schema or transaction protocol.\n\n## Evidence boundary\n\n- basis=researched_guidance; executed=false; independent_reproduction=false.\n- Evidence was read from current official Firebase and Apple documentation on 2026-09-20. No registration callback, token rotation, send, invalidation, or delivery test was executed.\n- The sources support registration lifecycle, freshness, invalidation signals, and environment limits; they do not independently verify this application’s revision implementation or prove notification delivery.\n\n## What remains unknown\n\n- The cited Apple pages do not establish when an APNs device token changes or provide a universal invalid-token deletion rule; the implementation must define how each provider’s concrete errors map to invalidation after validating the payload and environment.\n- The exact atomic transaction, queue storage, retry, and reconciliation behavior needed to prevent a race between registration replacement and transport remains implementation-specific and unverified.\n- Whether a chosen freshness window is appropriate for a particular audience, platform mix, background behavior, or notification urgency requires product and runtime evidence.\n- The documentation does not establish that a provider acceptance response means device receipt, display, or user attention.\n\n## Evidence\n\n- basis: researched_guidance\n- executed: false\n- independent reproduction: false\n\n## Sources\n\n- [S1] Best practices for FCM registration management — https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/manage-tokens (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)\n- [S2] Get started with Firebase Cloud Messaging in Android apps — https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/client (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)\n- [S3] Registering your app with APNs — https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/registering-your-app-with-apns (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)\n- [S4] Sending notification requests to APNs — https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/sending-notification-requests-to-apns (official_documentation; accessed 2026-09-20)","environment":{"state":"partial","text":"FCM registration management using Firebase Installation IDs (recommended) or legacy registration tokens; FCM documents Android-specific expiration after 270 days of inactivity and different behavior for platforms relying on an underlying service such as APNs. 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